Serving Verona, NJ
Therapy, Couples Counseling & Therapy Intensives for Verona Residents
Private-pay therapy for high-achieving adults, couples, and individuals ready to break
repeating patterns, rebuild trust, and stop settling for just a weekly 50-minute session.
In-person in Montclair, minutes from Verona — or virtual, statewide.
Montclair, NJ — Minutes from Verona
In-Person & Virtual Statewide
Private Pay · Superbills & Mentaya
Free 15-Minute Call
The Weight You're Carrying
Sound Familiar?
- You keep replaying the conversation, wondering what you missed — or what you're still missing.
- You've gotten really good at looking fine while feeling anything but.
- Every fight becomes the same fight, just with different words.
- You've done therapy before. You know the tools. You're still stuck.
- Some part of you already knows what needs to happen — you just haven't been ready to say it out loud.
Built for People Who Don't Usually Ask for Help
Most of the Verona clients I work with are the ones other people turn to —
capable, composed, and not used to being on the receiving end of support.
This is often the first time that's actually felt necessary.
- Successful professionals used to being the one with the answers
- Couples working through infidelity, trust ruptures, or a slow drift apart
- People whose patterns started long before this relationship, in the family they grew up in
- People who've already tried weekly therapy and want more depth, faster
- Clients who want a therapist who won't be rattled or impressed by their story — just useful
- Verona and nearby Essex County residents who want real in-person care close to home, or virtual sessions that fit a packed schedule
How I Can Help
How We Can Work Together
Therapy Intensives
A single concentrated block of time to get further than months of standard sessions typically allow.
Learn more →Couples Therapy
Direct couples work aimed at real change, not just a weekly place to vent.
Learn more →Individual Therapy — Trauma, Patterns & Family Roles
For repeating relationship patterns, betrayal, and attachment wounds — or for the guilt and overfunctioning that started in your family long before any relationship did.
Learn more →Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
For when you understand your patterns but talk therapy alone hasn't been enough to change them.
Learn more →How a Therapy Intensive Actually Works
Weekly sessions cap out at 50 minutes — sometimes just enough to get warmed up before time's up. A therapy intensive trades that for a half-day or full-day block, so we can actually stay with something long enough to move through it.
Verona clients typically use intensives one of two ways: as a fast start before settling into ongoing weekly work, or as a focused reset when something specific — an affair, a decision point, a family pattern you're ready to finally name, years of the same argument — needs real attention now.
For the right fit, intensives can also include Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), delivered in partnership with Journey Clinical, for processing that goes beyond what talk therapy alone can reach.
"We honestly didn't realize how much of a difference having extra time would make. We'd been seeing Alexandria for weekly therapy and making progress, but our intensive completely changed the pace of our work. Instead of stopping right when we were getting somewhere, we had the time to keep going, uncover what was really happening underneath our arguments, and actually practice communicating differently. It felt like months of therapy condensed into a single day. We both walked away feeling more connected, more hopeful, and with tools we're still using. If you're on the fence about an intensive, do it. It was one of the best investments we've made in our relationship."
— Therapy Intensive Client, names withheld for privacy
Frequently Asked Questions
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Individual sessions are $300 for 60 minutes.
Couples and family sessions are $350 for 60 minutes. This is a private-pay practice.
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A 2-hour extended session is $720 for individuals or $840 for couples and families.
For a full-day intensive, pricing depends on timing: the 5-hour intensive is $2,250 on weekdays, $3,000 in the evening or on Friday/Saturday, or $4,000 on Sunday.
The 9-hour, two-day intensive is $4,000 on weekdays, $5,000 in the evening or on Friday/Saturday, or $6,000 on Sunday.
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Intensives are available as a 2-hour extended session, a full-day 5-hour intensive, or a two-day 9-hour intensive, so you can choose the depth that matches what you need.
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Betrayal trauma often shows up as intrusive thoughts about the betrayal, hypervigilance or checking behaviors, trouble sleeping, emotional numbness, and a shaken sense of trust in your own judgment. These are trauma responses, not a sign that something is wrong with you — and they're very treatable.
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Many relationships not only survive infidelity but become more honest and connected than before — when both partners are willing to do the work. Recovery isn't guaranteed, and it isn't quick, but it's more possible than most people believe going in.
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That's common. Many relationship patterns — guilt, overfunctioning, difficulty trusting, or repeating the same conflict — actually started in the family you grew up in, long before this relationship. Individual therapy can address that directly, whether it shows up as attachment patterns or as generational family roles.
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It varies. Some couples notice a shift in communication within 6 to 10 sessions of focused work. Longer-standing patterns, like rebuilding trust after a betrayal, often benefit from an intensive to jump-start the work, followed by ongoing weekly sessions.
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Yes. Ketamine is legal when prescribed off-label by a licensed medical provider and administered under medical supervision — which is how it's delivered here, through a partnership with Journey Clinical. It's not self-administered or recreational use.
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No — this practice is private-pay only. Sessions are eligible for out-of-network reimbursement, and Mentaya is available to handle the superbill submission and insurance follow-up for you, so you're not stuck doing the paperwork yourself.
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Yes. Sessions are available virtually anywhere in New Jersey, as well as in person at the Montclair office, a short drive from Verona. Many Verona clients choose a mix of both.
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A free 15-minute call to talk through what's going on, answer your questions about fit and format, and figure out next steps together — no pressure to book afterward.
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Most local practices offer weekly talk therapy alone. Here, couples and individuals also have access to therapy intensives — extended, concentrated sessions — as well as generational trauma and family-pattern work, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy through a partnership with Journey Clinical, for clients who want to move faster or go deeper than standard weekly sessions allow.
Visit In-Person
Jaded Hearts – Center for Healing
28 Valley Rd, Suite 1, Montclair, NJ 07042
(973) 969-3990
About 10 minutes from Verona
Getting Here from Verona
- Head toward Bloomfield Avenue, which connects Verona directly to Montclair.
- Continue onto Valley Road in Montclair — the office is a short distance in, at Suite 1.
- On-site and nearby street parking is available. Use the Get Directions button above for live, turn-by-turn navigation.
Ready When You Are
The Work Doesn't Get Easier by Waiting
Whether you're untangling what a betrayal actually means for this relationship, stuck in a pattern you can trace back further than this relationship, or ready to trade a year of half-progress for a single focused day — this is where it starts. Verona clients see me in-person in Montclair or virtually, on whatever schedule actually works.